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name
A small market town and civil parish with a town council in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5129).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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History
Recorded as Weme 1086 (Domesday Book); from Old English wamm or wemm.
From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English womm (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh1- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vomō (“to vomit”, verb) (whence English vomit), Ancient Greek ἐμέω (eméō, “to spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vémti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit वमति (vamati, “to vomit”). The sense development would be "vomit" > "stain", "fault".
